New land-cover maps of Ghana for 2015 using landsat 8 and three popular classifiers for biodiversity assessment

International Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 38, Issue 14, 2017, Pages 4008-4021

  Hackman, Kwame Oppong ^a   Gong, Peng ^a   Wang, Jie ^a,b  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b STATE KEY LABORATORY OF REMOTE SENSING SCIENCE   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL MACHINERY; BIODIVERSITY; DECISION MAKING; DECISION TREES; DEFORESTATION; EARTH (PLANET); MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD; REMOTE SENSING; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES;

AGRICULTURAL LAND; CLASSIFICATION ALGORITHM; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD CLASSIFIERS; NATURAL ENVIRONMENTS; OVERALL ACCURACIES; POLICY FORMULATION; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINE (SVMS);

ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT;

BIODIVERSITY; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; LAND COVER; LANDSAT; MAPPING METHOD;

GHANA;

EID: 85022132466     PISSN: 01431161     EISSN: 13665901     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01431161.2017.1312619     Document Type: Article

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